Proposed Amendments to the Resolution on the War Issue[1]

Published:First published in 1931 inLenin Miscellany XVII.

      Written between January 27 and 29 (February 9 and 11), 1917.

      Translated from the German.

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1.Partyparliamentary deputies shall be under obligation
to reject, stating their principled grounds, all war demands and credits
and insist on demobilisation.

2.Nocivil peace; intensification of principled struggle against all
bourgeois parties, also against nationalist-Grütli ideas in the labour
movement and the party.

3.Systematicrevolutionary propaganda in the army.

4.Supportof all revolutionary movements and of the struggle against
the war and against one’s own government in every warring country.

5.Assistanceto every revolutionary mass action in
Switzerland—strikes, demonstrations—and their development into open
armed struggle.

6.Theparty shall proclaim the socialist transformation of Switzerland
to be the aim of the revolutionary mass struggle decided upon at the 1915
Party Congress at Aarau. This revolution is the only, and really effective,
way of liberating the working class from the horror of high prices and
hunger, and is essential for the complete elimination of militarism and
war.

[1]Theseamendments were proposed by the Swiss Lefts at the Zurich cantonal
party congress in Töss, February 11–12, 1917.

Thecongress had before it two draft resolutions: (1) a
social-chauvinist draft submitted by minority members of the commission on
the war issue, and (2) a Centrist draft from the commission majority. The
latter was adopted with the amendments formulated by Lenin by 93 votes to
65. The Lefts voted for the resolution in order to prevent adoption of the
social-chauvinist draft. The typewritten copy of the amendments has this
note by Lenin on the results of the voting:

“Forthe Right-wing Klöti and Co. resolution

—65

—82

// 32+32 for this

” ”  Grimm Centrist resolution

—93 +resolution

\\ \\ 61 out of 158Total158”

Theamendments were published in No.{\thinspace}1 of the leaflet
“Gegen die Lüge der Vaterlandsverteidigung” (“Against the Fatherland
Defence Lie”) issued by the Swiss Left in February 1917 in close
cooperation with Lenin.

Lenindiscusses the struggle within the Swiss Social-Democratic Party
in his article “The Story of One Short Period in the Life of One Socialist
Party” (see pp. 283–86 of this volume).